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Greg

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Would you have Rafa back?   

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  1. 1. Would you have Rafa back?

    • Yes, as manager, immediately
      101
    • Yes, as manager, but at some point in the future (eg if relegated)
      97
    • Yes, in an advisory or DoF role
      74
    • No, not in any meaningful capacity
      132

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STM

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There's a definite attempt from the press to flood the place with scare-mongering. We know the ramifications of these talks, we don't need the press to ram it down our throats.

 

As far as I can tell, nothing has changed. We should expect to here something next week.

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LV

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anything decent there? no clicks for dm from me

 

Basically, he doesn’t want Penfold being the one to sign off deals because Penfold always has to go to Fatty to get his final approval on a deal. This led to us missing out on Willy Caballero because it took too long.

 

Rafa wants to be the one who signs off the deals. He’s less concerned about the amount of transfer funds he gets but he wants the flexibility to use the funds as he sees fit without the twits getting involved.

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TK-421

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5719385/amp/Newcastle-boss-Rafa-Benitez-targets-control-transfer-funds-spent.html?__twitter_impression=true

 

'It's like a train and you have the engine and the carriages,' said Benitez. 'You can sort marketing, commercial, the academy, but if you don't have power here, at the front, the train doesn't go.

 

'You need power and then you can pull whatever you want. You have to put the priority (on the engine) and after the other carriages will follow.”

 

Strange article that. Strange in that, it includes quite a few things I specifically remember them discussing on Totalsport this week, including almost word for word quotes from Anderson about how Rafa would like to spend any funds (the bit about 1 player for x or multiples players for y each).

 

Almost like Craig Hope has created an article from stuff/soundbites he's heard on Totalsport.  :hmm:

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Paully

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Lascelles;

 

“I can’t emphasise how important it is. Since he’s been here, the club has been on the rise. He’s got the club together, the city together, and everything has been positive.

 

The players love him, a manager of that level who’s been at big clubs and won trophies, you’ve got to do all you can to hold onto him. Look how he’s got us playing.

 

People say we wouldn’t gel together and we’re a Championship side, well if that’s the case then the manager has got us all together and we’re sat in the middle of the table.

 

As players, we’ve got to cross the white line but we follow instructions from somewhere, and that’s the gaffer. The club have got to keep him happy”

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Kanji

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All MA has to do is just let Rafa run the club as he sees fit, he doesn’t even want a massive transfer budget. He just wants money the club generates each year and sales to be used as he sees fit ffs. It’s so god damn easy. Unreal.

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Scoot

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All MA has to do is just let Rafa run the club as he sees fit, he doesn’t even want a massive transfer budget. He just wants money the club generates each year and sales to be used as he sees fit ffs. It’s so god damn easy. Unreal.

 

This^

 

I can't even believe there's any talks needed. What the fuck do the muppets running the club need to talk to Rafa about?

 

So fucking frustrating.

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Scoot

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Mike Ashley has once again warned manager Rafa Benitez that Newcastle United cannot spend fortunes in the transfer market.

 

Despite seeing his personal wealth soar another £277million to £2.437billion, the Toon owner insists that he can’t match the foreign-owned clubs such as Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea in the transfer market.

 

First few lines of that article man! :huff: :idiot2:

 

As if we expect to compete financially with those clubs? "Deluded Geordies" :lol:

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mrmojorisin75

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I think it'll be around £50m plus whatever he makes in sales.

Sell Mitro for 20+ then an assortment of the other shite for say another 20-30 it would be a decent wedge but you'd need to be buying a top class striker with that, dubs, hopefully Kenedy as well and it'll pretty much be gone [emoji38]

 

We should be looking at 2 good loans with options if we can swing them next season to pay up the following year. Something like that and we could have a decent squad tbh.

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Yorkie

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It isn't even about the budget with Rafa. It's about trust, communicating and ambition. He might be 'allowed' £100m to spend, but if the deal-makers aren't singing from the same hymn sheet as him - or are just incompetent - it all falls apart.

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AyeDubbleYoo

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It isn't even about the budget with Rafa. It's about trust, communicating and ambition. He might be 'allowed' £100m to spend, but if the deal-makers aren't singing from the same hymn sheet as him - or are just incompetent - it all falls apart.

 

Incompetence is the big danger for me. Even if Rafa identifies targets within budget, who’s to say Charnley and all are capable of getting it done? The amount of the budget is distant second to that.

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